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  1. OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
  2. ODATA-1117

4.01 services should support $select select option in Intermediate

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_CSD02
    • Fix Version/s: V4.01_CSD03
    • Component/s: Protocol
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      In OData-1105 we introduced $select options. The initial motivation for this was to provide an alternate, more concise way to specify the subset of properties of a complex type that was consistent with $expand. Arguably, this is how nested $select properties should have been done in 4.0.

      Once we introduced the syntax that was more consistent with $expand, we also discovered that some of the $expand query options could quite naturally apply to collections of structural properties as well, and added things like $filter, $orderby, $search, etc.

      When deciding where to put this new functionality in the conformance section, we made these new nested select options a SHOULD in 4.01 intermediate, and a MUST in 4.01 Advanced, since nesting $filter, $orderby, etc. within the $select represented new advanced functionality that we didn't want to make required in intermediate.

      However, we kinda forgot the initial purpose of the issues, which was to provide a more concise and consistent syntax for selecting a subset of fields within a complex type.

      In order for clients to reliably take advantage of this new syntax, that (for nested $select) doesn't introduce any additional functionality, we should make support for the 4.01 syntax be at the same level as the 4.0 syntax; that is, supporting $select as a select option should be required in intermediate for a 4.01 service.

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              mikep Michael Pizzo
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